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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

In another column of this issue will be
found an entirely new and novel specimen
Of attractive advertising. It is one of the
neatest ever placed in our paper and we
think our readers will be well repai, for
examining the SUPPOSED display letters in
the advertisement of Prickly Ash Bitters.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27
How They Live Down In FLORIDA.

"A newspaper correspondent writing
from Jacksonville, Fla, says that the
town is full Of Northern folks, and that
the position of the natives is well stated
In the words of little darby, who, asked
how he got a living, said: SIN de summer,
sab, we lives often de fishes; and in de
wintah we lives often de sick Yankees"
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VALUABLE AND CONCENTRATIONS
BRONCHIAL TRocHEs are safe and sure
remedy for Bronchitis, Coughs and Other
troubles of the Throat and Lungs.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

A Mainesburg correspondent says:
'.Mr Samuel jackson has girl about
five years old very sick with whooping
cough. She was given up for dead
once, but her uncle took her out doors
and swung her by the feet and she
came to. She does not eat, and coughs
and whoops terribly. Welzs6oro pa
Agitator.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27
Americas Pride.

True American men and women, by rea-
son Of their strong constitutions, beautiful
forms, rich complexions and characteristic
energy, are envled by all nations. 1t is the
general use of DR.. Harter's Iron Tonic
which brings about these results.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

It's Sx,bose is solcly for tile legitimate healingg
disease andtAe yehefef Pain, anatAat! Il does aNit
claims to do, thousands ladies can gladly testJty
Ithas stoodthe oftwenty years in relieving period
cal pain, promoting regularity Of seasons, and banishing
weakness backache and consequent nervous distress.
Probably no other woman in the world receives so
many "letters Of thanks" as Lydia E. Pinkham, Of
Lynn, Mass. Mrs B Of Enfield, N. H., says:
81 will simply say that your Vegetable Compound is all
you recommend it to be. IT has done me Wo,lds Of
good" Another lady writes from Ottawa follows:
have just to-day bought the seventh bottle your Vege
table Compound have used two boxes Of Pills and sew
eral packages Of your Sanative Wash and think it but
rghtto you how much good derived from your med
cines. They are a regular God-send. Allthe pains
and aches have almost disappeared my stomach much
stronger too and feel myself improved every way"
Price u. Sold by all Drugkists.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

PRIzE-rIeHrERs hit hard. And they are
hard to hit.-PhtSburgh Dispatch.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso':
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. SOC
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

LOVES to be sat upon-the dude. Els
pecially il it is pretty girl
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

PueIL1sTs set bad examples to laboring
men. They never do any thing but strike.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

AN orchestra very seldom has m6re
members than its leader can shake stick
at
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

"BoY-corrNa here" is the sign Of
Sixth street newsboys lodging house.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-27

A PROMPT Way 81 Easing Asthma. Use
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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WooDcHoPpERs may be men, Of rough
exterior; yet all Of them are very good
felierS
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
The Opal an Unlucky Stone.

The opal is represented to be an un-
lucky gem. Perhaps it is. Here is q
little evidence to prove it. A young
lady of this city received for one Of her
wedding gifts very handsome opal
pin. On the wedding trip it was dis
covered that the opal was left at home.
It was telegraphed for, to be brought
down to New York by friend. The
friend carried it, as was supposed, but
on his arrival it was not to be found. It
had been mislaid somewhere. After
season it was found, and next made it's
appearance at "tea," where it was an
adornment of the young lady. Arriving
home, the opal was found to be missing.
Search in every possible place and adj
vertising in the newspapers failed to
reveal its whereabouts for weeks. It
was at last accidently discovered caught
in the fringe of a Christmas card which
depended from a gas bracket, where
it had accidentally caught and
swung around face to the wall
in hiding, not five feet from where
it was passed hundred times day,
and not three inches from the button
on the gas-fxture that was turned
udlly. Liz tdCdGlOu VI Vic OpAl Wa8
also unique. The couple went into the
mountains with two trunks. Arriving
at the hotel, one of the trunks was
wrong trunk, although the right check
was present. Some laundering bag
gage-master en- route had made wrong
transfer, and the trunk, which was the
lady's, had gone off on its own hook, or
it's own check. Here's a state Of
things" as Ko-Ko would remark. The
lost trunk furnished the topic of CONVEX
sation for the mountain village, the
hotel guests condoled with the un-
fortunate losers, shook their heads
lugubriously, and substantiated their
shakes by cheerful CO stories of lost
trunks that they had known about.
The telegraph was put into requisition,
and, after many days, the trunk made
its appearance, and then congratula-
tions, fireworks in the evening"" etc.
The opal was in that trunk. Hartford
Post
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
For Office Circulation.

II heard from Radby to-day" said
one newspaper man to another. "He's
just started q weekly paper IN New
York. There's mint of money in it,
too"
II don't see why you are so certain of
that" said the other. "Radby is q
bright fellow, but it takes something
more than mere brains to make o
weekly paper succeed in New York.
What makes you think this one is going
to boom?"
ooh, I'm sure of it," was the reply.
Gle sent mo q copy and I've been look
ing it over. It's bound to be 60"
"Well, that may be SO, of course, but
what is its distinguishing featured"
"Why, it's a paper that no respect
able man would ever allow to come into
bis house. "-Sonerville 10 A1aal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
Doniug the Hat.

All Jewish congregations worship with
their heads covered. So do the Quakers,
although st. PATHS injunctions on the
matter are clearly condemnatory of the
practice. The Puritans of the Common
wealth would seem to have~ kept their
hats on, whether preaching or being
preached to, since Pepys notes hearing
simple clergyman exclaiming against
men wearing their hats in the church,
and year afterward 1852 writes, "To
the French church in the Savoy, and
where they have the common prayer
book read in French, and which I never
saw before, the minister do preach with
his hat off, / suppose in further con-
formity with our church"
William III. rather scandalized his
church-going subjects by following
Dutch customs, and keeping his head
covered in church; and, when it did
please him to doff his ponderous hat
during the service, he invariably donned
it as the preacher mounted the pulpit
stairs. When Bossuet, at the age of IA,
treated the gay fellows of the Hotel de
RambouilIet to a midnight sermon,
Voltaire sat it out with his hat on, but,
uncovering it when the boy-preacher
had finished, bowed low before him,
saying, "Sir, never heard a man
preach at once SO early and so late. {"
AS token of respect, uncovering the
head is one of the Oldest of courtesies.
Lamenting the decay of respect to
age, Clarendon tells us that in his
young days he never kept his hat on
his head before his elders except at
dinner. A curious exception, that, to
modern notions of politeness; but it
was the custom to sit covered at meals
down to the beginning of the eight
zenith century.
Sir John Finett, deputy master OF
the ceremonies at the court of King
James l., was much puzzled as to
whether the Prince OF Wales should sit
covered or not at dinner in the presence
of the sovereign, when foreign am
bassador was one of the guests, since
the latter, as the representative OF q
king, was not expected to veil his bon
net. Giving James hint of his diff
Guilty, his Majesty disposed of it, when
the time came, by uncovering his head
for a little while-an example all pres
ent were bound to follow-and then,
putting on his hat again, requested the
prince and the ambassador to do like
wise.
CHATS need not be raised here" So,
it is said, runs notice in one of
Nuremberg's streets. "Hats must be
raised here," should have been in
scribed on the Kremlin gateway, where
a government officer used to stand to
compel passers-by to remove their hats,
because under that gate the retreating
army of Napoleon withdrew from Mos
COW. whether the regulation is in
force at this day is more than we know.
-HatterS' Gazette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
Musical Item.

II DESIRE" said Miss Es,neralda Long
coffin, entering music store on Austin
avenue, "to purchase piece OF music
for my little brother, who plays on the
piano"
"Here, Miss, is precisely what you
want"
"What is the name of it?"
"The Maiden's Prayer for fifty cents. T"
"Only fifty cents! Why, he's much
further advanced than that, for last
month he played piece worth seventy
five cents. Haven't you something for
dollar ?"-Ie1as SU1iags.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
uNBEcoMING STYLES.
An Observers Protest Against Women
Blindly Following Fashion.

Blindly Following Fashion.
Rochester Post-Express.]
/ am SO little accustomed to what is
known as society that anything say
about it should be taken as disinter-
ested and ingenious expression of
opinion from an observer to whom GER
tain customs that are hallowed for So
ciety people by convention may seem
new. strange, and possibly unlovely. A
well-known statistician in New York
was described as looking at humanity
from an outside point of view; and oc-
casionally glance at society in that
way. Recently went to church to
look at the marriage of friend whom
greatly admire. The wedding was what
is commonly called fashionable one,
and there were present the most of the
society people of the city-many of
them in full dress. AS the result Of my
observation frankly declare that /
don't like the looks of women in the
prevailing evening costume. Anything
that fashion sanctions is, of course, all
right in the feminine judgment, and I
do not mean to say that every detail of
dress was not in the latest style; but !
will that it is ian opinion
that fire cannot melt out of me"-that,
considered artistically, most of the cos
tunes were unbecoming. This is es.
pecially true Of those cut with acute
angles opening upward in front and
rear of the corsage. Far be it from me
to say that the neck, shoulders, and
bust of pretty woman are not among
the most beautiful things in the world
but the collar-bone and the ridge of the
back are not the best points in any
woman's anatomy; and to these points
this style of dress gives undue exposure
Even the cases where the acute angles
were abandoned and the opening in the
corsage broadened into parallelo
gram, giving a fair view of neck
shoulders, and bosom, the effect wa.
not always happy. In fully nine ease.
out of ten there was something incon
gruous in the result. Either the arm.
were not pretty, or the neck was no
graceful, or the bust was not fine, OF
the head and face were out of keeping
with the lack of drapery. 1 know tina
it is awfully ungallant to say this.
know that it is a pleasing fiction tina
every woman looks like on angel in full
dress; but, dear girls, they are fatter
ers that tell you so. 1t is trying Gus
tom, in which few women look thei
best-as trying as q bathing suit, an.
how few women can be graceful in that
What puzzles me is this: That womel
who study dress so closely and know s
we'll their own best points should, afte
all, so seldom show independence i
their costumes and robe themselves q
individuals, rather than in certain style
prescribed by fashion. Why will they
merely because certain cloth, Gel
tain shape of skirt or corsage is j
vogue, adopt it when nature so mad
them that another material, anothe
color, another style of garment, woul
set them off to greater advantage?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
Escapetl.

A party of Russian Revolutionists was
once assembled. aud, according to the
author of Underground Russia" in
dulging in "reminiscences of past perils.
One of them, Krapotkine by name, had
escaped from custody by shrewd plan,
and it was he whose story was most
eagerly desired. Krapotkine, by feign-
ing illness, had been transferred to the
Nicholas hospital, where he speedily
became 80 much better that he was al
lowed to make daily exercise in the
courtyard of the building. A sentinel,
musket in hand, was always by his side.
It one day occurred to him that, in the
event Of his taking to his heels, the
sentinel would, by natural instinct,
rush upon him, instead of running to
the gate to intercept him there. Thus
the sentinel must of necessity lose some
steps, and the fugitive, having eluded
his first grasp, might reasonably hope
to reach the gate first.
Soon after this, he managed to COM
municate with his friends, and plan
was matured providing for their assist
ance.
A plan was resolved upon. One Of
the conspirators hired q room in the
third story of house directly opposite
the hospital. From the window could
be seen the other five sentinels posted
along the streets, together with Krapot-
kline, as he waited in the courtyard.
The signal for fight was to be
given by means of violin, which the
watcher would play when all indications
were favorable, ceasing when they be-
came dangerous.
Krapotkine went out to take his ex-
ercise, on the day appointed. No sooner
had he entered the courtyard than he
heard the violin. He did not at once
profit by the signal, and 10! the music
suddenly stopped. Two minutes after
ward some carts containing wood entered
the courtyard.
The music recommended. Krapot-
kline threw off his long dressing gown,
in which he could not run, and started
for the gate. The guard, as he had an,
ticipated rushed at him, and the fugi.
tive eluded the touch of the bayonet
only by the fraction of an inch.
Once outside the gate, Krapotkine
dashed at the vehicle waiting there, and
was driven off at full speed.
At the hospital great uproar O
course followed. The officer of the
guard, with his soldiers, fastened out q
the shouts of the sentinel. Completed,
beside himself, the latter tore his hair
crying:
II am ruined! I am ruined! Ru,
| after hirs.i Follow him!"
For time he was even incapable o
giving orders, and Krapotkine wa
meanwhile driven away to place o
safety
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
And his physicians and his friends

And his physicians and his friends
mourned and said:
"Alas! he did not rest soon enough.
He tarried at his desk too long"
But his Uncle Ben, who came to at
tend the funeral, and had to do all his
weeping out of one eye, because the
other was black half way down to his
chin, said it was pity, but Mustapha
was too awfully lazy to live, and had no
get-up about him.
But Mustapha visit not what they
said, because he was dead. So they
divided his property among them, and
said if he wanted a tombstone, he might
have attended to it himself while he
was yet alive, because they had no time.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

"OLEQuA" writes to the Cowlitz
IlIontanay Adrocate the following sig
|pifcant letter: My wife has been gone
way on the jury four days. Ihave not
bad square meal since she left. My
children are crying for bread, and every
lining goes wrong. am hungry, angry,
pnd all ont of sorts in every respect. 1
write this to warn the people that who
over advocates woman's rights in my
presence again must be q very large
man, and if ever the Sheriff comes after
|my wife again he had better bring q
posse with him, for my shotgun is loaded
Pnd | will not hesitate to use it,"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

WHEN Senator Jones, of Florida, was
elected to the United States Senate in
PS76 he was member Of the Legisla-
lure and voted for himself. The funny
part of the business is that his vote was
Necessary to effect the election, and he
thus practically elected himself. When
Jones saw that his vote was necessary
70 choice he drew himself up to his
pun height, and, looking severely at the
presiding officer, said: "In the name
ana by the command of the 5000 Dem
Pcrats OF Escambia County I cast my
|sote Tor Charles w. Jones'" The
Assembly burst into uproarious laugh
ter and applause.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

joke, though he suffered more than all
others. The thread of wire struck him
right in the middle of the eyes, and so
injured one of them that he lost the
sight Of it entirely. The other
one was also seriously affected.
The result has been daily agony or al
most sightless misery ever since then,
with the end of it all in death now
probably near at hand.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

oxp Of the most successful counter
letters Of the past decade has just been
l,restea in New England. The pris-
bner iss woman 40 years of age, and
be Transcript says she melted the
natql and made her own casts of toler-
! bly well-rchned bogus silver. She
Lad mt out thousands of dollars with
but discovery, when bogus quarter
which she attempted to pass on re-
borter caused her downfall. If she
Ever gets out Of prison she will hate
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

MEN of pluck and ability can find the
front in the West. Take the case of
Samuel w. Allerton, the rich Chicago
pork packer. Only few years ago he
settled in Fulton County, Illinois, as a
farm hand. He went to work for 500
a month and his board for rich old
farmer named Thompson. Through
rigid economy he managed to save o
few dollars, which he invested in pigs.
Each year they increased in number,
and he finally sold them in Chicago,
realizing quite handsome sum. He
then engaged in hog raising in small
way, and shortly afterward married the
Oldest daughter of Farmer Thompson,
his employer. He received consider
able property with her, and that en-
abled him to go quite extensively into
hog raising. He made money rapidly,
and the result was he started a
slaughter-house in Chicago, which has
now grown to be one of the greatest
institutions of it's kind in the world.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
Nature Modified by Man.

In 1903 Col. T. NJ. Pike started on a
three years tour through New Spain"
by order of the United States Govern
ment. OF the country now included in
Kansas and Nebraska he reported that
it might be possible to introduce linn
tied population along the rivers, but
that the vast plains lying between the
Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Pacific
Ocean may become as celebrated as the
sandy deserts of Africa. The Colonel
thought this great arid region would be
an advantage to the United States by
restricting the population within certain
limits, thereby insuring continuance
of the Union, leaving the prairies inca
pable of cultivation to the aborigines.
In 1890 Stephen d. Long, by order
of the Secretary of War, made an ex-
petition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky
Mountains. Speaking of the country
lying between the Missouri River and
the Rocky Mountains he said, in his
report, that the whole region was unfit
for cultivation, and uninhabitable by
civilized communities, but may prove
Of infinite Importance to the United
States as O barrier against the invasions
of enemies which might otherwise
annoy us from that direction. Middle
aged men of to-day remember the
"Great American Desert" of their
school aliases, and that thirty or forty
years ago the newspapers were busy
proving that the United States was not
really as big country as most people
supposed, on account of the vast unin-
habitable deserts of the West.
Since that time the desert has retired
before the advance Of civilization, and
the reports of the early official explor-
ers sound strangely absurd when read
by the firesides of Kansas and Nebraska
farmers. Similar things were said of
the great valleys of California, but the
farms and orchards of the Sacramento
and San Joaquin speak much for the
greater possibilities of the future. The
SGreat Thirst Land" of North America
has been pushed into the basin lying
between the Rocky Mountains and the
Sierra Nevada, and even there the pro-
gress of settlement, cultivation, and irri-
cation is daily developing the fact that
industry and enterprise can turn the
apparently waste plains into fertile
fields, that changed climatic conditions
follow civilization, and that man modi-
fies the conditions of nature San
francisco Call.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

D.yrrr is thus described by
Nli'h .aat; reporter: "He is a man
Cilc-n 1--WE frame, and grand head
ni'''s ,,ore the broad shoulders. The
'wers 81 broad and full, overtops a
'r''it e ssarching, cold-black eyes, while
OIL , y, portion of the face is covered
pc NV ,lv-trimmed black beard"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

st,a, LAYTON (Ohio) man has had o
re,n1t u paralysis which will probably
cor "' IN death. The misfortune all
w. from practical joke. Last
be- WIS., 'lle workmen in shop in which
n 81, %'s at one time employed stretched
9, ''i'ost invisible thread or wire across
km ~ way in the shop for the
aj1 W.. 'necklng up suddenly those who
>rjsn '' see 1t, and enjoying their sur
(Aars ano discontinue. He, among
"' was victim of this practical
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

- river Of true ink, with which
A sA ,no been written, is one of the
tiers na ,,,r;osities of Algeria. It is
|tural ~. the union of two rivulets,
rmea -,.h III is very strongly impreg-
Pe oil s -, IRON. while the other has i'm
ted VIII Lilo acid from q peat marsh
.uh which it passes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

,5 NV nj the Flatheads on their reser-
~. . in Northwest Montana, says q
A. Wv. IN tbe st. Louis Globe Demo-
(,nt. are given to dudish ways. For
,st.nce, they wear good clothes. own
a ,s steppers, possess the showiest kind
fh,ankets and carry plenty of silver.
,,,o of them own one or more race
forsos and do nothing else for a living
Soont Gamble with each other on the
tes,,1t Of race, but principally with
hutsiders."